The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers’ upcoming meeting in Moscow promises no serious progress over Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) given that the earlier talks too, failed to secure the desired outcome, a former opposition lawmaker from the Heritage party said in comments to the paper.

Tevan Poghosyan, who now heads the International Center for Human Development, described the upcoming summit plan as yet another attempt by the OSCE Minsk Group to demonstrate that every new appointment should signal a positive development.

“As far as I understand, the co-chairs are going to discuss the implementation of the mechanisms aiming to reduce the tension along the border. It is worth remembering, however, that such agreements were achieved also back in May 2016. And we haven’t seen any progress in the past 1.5 years,” he noted,

Ambassador Andrew Schofer was appointed the United States’ co-chair of the Minsk Group in August, replacing Richard Hoagland.

“I don’t think any great changes are going to happen. The Minsk Group is simply trying to play a scenario of active developments every time they have a co-chair replaced. Yet, we know that it is the powerful countries’ leaders’ desire to demonstrate, ahead of every election, that they have done something good … To make the dynamics visible we need to first of all promote changes in our internal life, strengthening our country and economy,” he added.